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That hat looks really cool! Also cool is the healing-time difference since you quit. Good for you!

Congrats on 8 months smoke free! It's great to see you blogging again, I just bought the pattern for your lovely Tea Leaves cardigan and can't wait to get started. A friend in my knittin group is making one too and hers looks awesome! :)g

LOVE the hat! Can't wait to try the pattern!

Yay for more blog posts! And glad to hear you're feeling better :)

Remembering crochet stitches isn't so important as being able to understand instructions for how to do the stitches again. I have the "Teaching Yourself Visually: Crochet" book, and it's a pretty good way to "remember" how to do things like half-double crochet.

Good luck!

The color on your Tea Leaves is super wonderful!
As for sucking at all these new skills...just practice. You'll get better at all of them with practice.

Yé!!! I missed you so much! So glad that you come back. It's like not seeing a friend for a while! So get well, take care, and looking forward to see that hat!!

you're so good at crochet though! if you want, we can talk about half double crochets tomorrow, although i'm not so sure i'm great at it myself. i'm glad we're stumbling through together, if only for the promise of a little joe after class.

also everyone stinks at spinning for like a year after they start. some of us stink at it for longer (myself included). we'll start spinning together when i have my own place and you'll get awesome at it with practice!

We should hang out and suck at crochet together sometime.

I love reading about works-in-progress, even hints. Glad to hear you're not quitting your blog.

And hey, I meant to say congrats...I read an awesome blog post about your tea leaves cardigan recently...hope it sells a lot of books! :-)

I love the new hat pattern! And your tea leaves is gorgeous! I can't wait to make mine. It's going to be purple.

Hurray for trying new things. Crochet is easy and you will get the hang of it in no time. I taught myself.

I am still afraid of trying to warp my rigid heddle loom by myself. It's buried under a mountain of fiber. But that is one of my 2010 goals, weave something.

I love spinning, but it takes away from my knitting time. I just tend to put my handspuns in my Etsy Shop when I am done.

What a cool hat! I taught myself to crochet last night - I managed a wonky granny square and then went to bed. :)

That's a fantastic looking hat. What colorway is your sweater? It looks great too!

Of course you don't have to just blog about finished projects! This was a great post :)

p.s. I'm totally using your non-longer-smoker story to harass my heavily-smoking aunt with it. ;)

It's good that you decide to continue to blog. After a year, I deleted my blog, but then, came back to it. I missed the Blog Roll feature (that allows me to read so many nice blog like yours!) too much ;-) I don't write often but it's nice when I do! Nice hat and look forward to seeing your Tea Leaves cardigan!

That hat is beautiful! I will be first in line for the pattern.

I think it's much easier to learn to crochet or knit when you already know the other one. You're going to be great, so don't give up when you crochet something that looks like a rhombus or a kidney. It just takes practice. And that's the same with spinning. When I got my wheel, I was a total wreck. Someone told me to spin for just 20 minutes a day, and I can't tell you how right they were. It gives you time to practice without getting overwhelmed or upset. Stick with it!

Yo can't wait to see the TLC--just a beautiful pattern ya got there, missus!

i hear you on the blogging! esp when all we were doing was book knitting, keeping up 2 was a p.i.t.a., so i don't blame you! keep it up, though, and do it when you want, not because you feel obligated.

i desperately love the hat, and that color, too.

xox

oh! i adore the hat!

Welcome back! and lovely photos :)

That hat is gorgeous! Love the yarn.

Just recently discovered your blog when I purchased the Tea Leaves Cardigan pattern. Tough to find Madelinetosh out in knitting land. I wanted to order the original color--Tannehill--2nd choice was Composition Book--couldn't get either in the necessary amount so I opted for Vintage Frame--is that its name?? Anyway, I am so looking forward to starting the cardigan and really love your hat pattern.
Glad you won't be giving up your blog!!

Yay, so glad you decided not to ditch the blog! I recently came back to blogging after a long hiatus, and I am enjoying it again. Just a photograph for a post is fine, especially since your photos even make Ny-Quil look pretty!

The new hat looks lovely!!! And seeing you around here more often would be lovely, too. FO posts are definitely not the only kind. :)

Congrats on kicking the habit and glad the crud passed quickly (love the gelcap photo!). LOVE the yarn in the tea leaves cardigan!

I love the pictures! And the hat is adorable! If you want some crochet inspiration, you can head on over to my blog. Or check out Teresa at http://crochet-mania.blogspot.com/ for some great video tutorial!

Dear Melissa,

I am so happy that you decided not to ditch your blog and not only continue with knitterly related posts, but one's that aren't knitting related as well! Your blog was one of the first blogs I came across, and I have enjoyed following you immensely. You are so very inspiring, no matter what you are talking about! I know I am just a stranger in a far away land, but I really wanted to come out and tell you how much you're blog means to me.

I'm glad you're feeling better, and I also wanted to stop by and say congrats!!! on having quit smoking and still having stuck to it. I remember when you first blogged about quitting, and It's so neat to hear that you've kept it up.

Cheers!

Have you ever noticed that the Starbucks 'sweater' mug is knit from the top down? I think it was one of the first things I noticed when a friend bought it for me.

I love all those colors!

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